Chapter 876 Reconnaissance

U-827 is a Type VIIC/41 submarine.

This type of submarine is slightly improved from the Type VIIC submarine. The main feature is that the hull is made of thicker and stronger materials, which allows it to dive to a deeper depth. However, because the internal parts of the submarine are made of lighter materials and are more reasonably planned, the total weight of the submarine has not increased but is slightly lighter than the Type VIIC, so the speed and range remain basically unchanged.

Captain Brecht had just laid down in the captain's room when the communicator handed a telegram to Captain Brecht.

Captain Brecht took a look at the content of the telegram, then turned over and sat up.

It originally thought that this was an ordinary attack order... telling them where to run and lurk and wait for the target to appear, but it turned out to be a reconnaissance mission.

As we all know, the reconnaissance mission seems simple, and only requires sending a few crew members to the shore to take a look, but in fact such a mission is not easier than the attack mission, and it can even be said to be more dangerous.

The reason is that submarines can run after the attack mission, and the attack location is still a sea area suitable for submarine diving or combat.

But the reconnaissance mission... First of all, it has to be close to the enemy coast, where there are often enemy destroyers everywhere. Secondly, after releasing the sailors to complete the reconnaissance mission, they have to be retrieved, and during this period, the submarine has to stay not far from the coastline. These are difficult and dangerous for the submarine.

However, orders are orders.

After thinking about it, Captain Brecht ordered: "Notify Sergeant Weiss to come to me!"

"Yes!"

Sergeant Weiss soon appeared in front of Captain Brecht... The captain's room is usually in the middle of the submarine, and the crew at both ends can find the captain in the shortest time.

Captain Brecht pointed to the map and said concisely: "Two kilometers south of Edinburgh, reconnaissance mission, to be carried out after dark!"

"Yes, sir!" Sergeant Weiss replied, hesitated and asked again: "If we are discovered, how do we get back?"

This is the most difficult... The reconnaissance mission itself is not difficult, you just need to rush to the designated location and report the reconnaissance results to the submarine via radio. The difficulty is that if they are discovered, it is almost impossible for the reconnaissance team to return to the submarine, because that will bring fatal danger to the entire submarine.

"If you are discovered!" Captain Brecht replied: "You don't need to return, surrender!"

Sergeant Weiss was stunned, and then soon realized that this might be his last mission, but he still stood up and saluted, and replied: "Yes, sir!"

As expected, as Captain Brecht and Sergeant Weiss expected, although they completed the reconnaissance mission, they were unable to return to the submarine because they were discovered by the enemy...Even when the British soldiers realized that their prisoners were German submarine soldiers, they immediately sent five destroyers to search nearby.

These are not the main points, because no one cares that a six-person reconnaissance team was killed, three were captured, and two were captured on the battlefield, and one jumped into the sea with a radio and disappeared...These are too ordinary for the battlefield, so ordinary that people feel that it is not worth mentioning when they hear this casualty figure.

The point is that this reconnaissance team successfully arrived at the designated location, which is where the German monitoring unit heard that there should be a military base... but it was an empty place with nothing but forests and weeds.

The reconnaissance team reported this intelligence to the submarine via radio, and the submarine reported the intelligence to the naval command, and then the intelligence was transmitted to the Western Front Command.

"Great!" Rommel shouted when he got the intelligence: "I knew it, I knew it... This is a lie, that guy was deceived, and he was fooled, the guy who had never been in a tank!"

Rommel raised the telegram in his hand to Qin Chuan again and said: "Well done, Lieutenant Colonel, we won!"

Then he kicked the listening materials next to him aside and said to Colonel Shuster: "You can throw them all in the trash, because none of them are true!"

Then, Rommel took Qin Chuan and Colonel Slaine to the second floor in a hurry, and Rundstedt's office was in the middle.

Unusually, Rundstedt and several staff officers were there, and he was discussing something with them.

"Commander-in-Chief!" Rommel walked in triumphantly and said, "According to your intelligence, you think the Allied 4th Army is gathering in Edinburgh, Scotland, preparing to attack Norway, right?"

Rundstedt immediately felt that the visitor was not friendly, but he still replied calmly: "Yes, is there any problem?"

"I think you should see this!" Rommel handed over the telegram.

While Rundstedt was staring at the telegram, Rommel couldn't wait to say: "We just happened to have a submarine near Edinburgh, so I asked them to scout this so-called 4th Army base. Do you know what they found? Nothing! Yes, everyone... nothing, this 4th Army does not exist at all, or it only exists in your monitoring!"

When several officers looked at each other and gathered to read the telegram in Rundstedt's hand, Rommel continued: "Obviously, the British know that our reconnaissance planes cannot reach Scotland, and warships cannot break through their coastal defenses, and even spies cannot There are no conditions to arrive, so there is not even a fake military base. There is only a deserted place, no troops, no military camps, no tanks or landing craft, just weeds and stones! "

After a moment of silence, Rundstedt threw the telegram aside and said, "Marshal Rommel, what do you want to explain?"

"What do I want to explain?" Rommel looked at Rundstedt in surprise: "I proved that this was a scam, didn't I?"

"Indeed!" Rundstedt replied: "But you seem to have forgotten what the focus of our argument is. You think the Allies will not attack Calais. This has nothing to do with the 4th Army!"

"We know that the British deceived us with radio!" Rommel said: "They faked the 4th Army. Of course they can also use the same method to fake the 1st Army..."

"Marshal Rommel!" Rundstedt interrupted Longshan and Rommel: "At least one thing you are right about is that you proved that the 4th Army was fake, and I appreciate that. But... the 1st The army is within our reconnaissance range, and our pilots have seen their military bases, including tanks, cars and warships. Are you telling me that all of this is false? "